Motivational interviewing with American Indian mothers to prevent early childhood caries: study design and methodology of a randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This randomized control trial assesses the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) to encourage behavior change in new mothers relating to caries prevention when caring for their newborn American Indian (AI) infants and young AI children.

Methods/design

The study is a randomized control trial. We hypothesize that when motivational interviewing is added to enhanced community oral health education services, the new mothers will achieve greater reduction of caries experience in their AI children compared to those who are receiving enhanced community services (ECS) alone. Six hundred mothers or caregivers of AI newborns will be enrolled into the study and randomized to one of the two intervention groups over a two-year period. The children will be followed unt

SUBMITTER: Batliner T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4011767 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature